[Bibio]

yeah, sounds like you are right. I wouldnt mind a 9.2 HEOS amp so I could have 4 ceiling speakers and have full control via ALEXA, too much coin though, My current DENON AVR X2300 is pretty good for the £250 I paid for it factory reconditioned.

 i'm actually looking at the AVRX-2400 as my next amp. TBT i'm a bit of a Yamaha fan boy but looking at the specs and features of the Denon i'm getting swayed it that direction.

there is only one thing thats confusing me about the Denon, there are 2 hdmi outs. one is marked ARC and the other is HDCP 2.2. does the HDCP 2.2 support ARC as well?

i'm trying to make things as easy for my wife who had a brain haemorrhage. at the moment she has got used to the new tv netflix app and i've set it up with ARC so when she presses the netflix button on the remote it auto switches sound for the tv output. the big problem is that i have used 'link' so the tv and amp both turn on and off at the same time but when pressing the power button on the tv remote the amp does not receive a signal from hdmi, well it does for a brief moment then switches to 'assigned input' instead of the cable box input e.g. hdmi 2.

when using the htpc she knows just to press the hdmi input to play stuff from there.

the wife cant use a touch screen device as a remote, tried that been there...lol